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Did anybody have a look at those custom ROMs, with sources from random repositories, modified by anonymous people, build on public build servers, distributed on
by 0b0001 7y ago
Did anybody have a look at those custom ROMs, with sources from random repositories, modified by anonymous people, build on public build servers, distributed on random file hosting services?
Are they trustworthy?
- userbinator 7y agoThe community is not stupid, it only takes one person to find out and tell everyone, and then the one doing it gets quickly ostracised. The centralised (corporatocracy) version of "trust" that is prevalent today one of the biggest obstructions to freedom IMHO.
- SmellyGeekBoy 7y agoThis is what I like about LineageOS. I may not have the time or inclination to build it myself, but it's "open enough" to meet my standards, especially compared to the closed ROM supplied by my phone's manufacturer (OnePlus, FWIW).
- 0b0001 7y agoI'm not implying they are, my question was honest. I once tried to see where the binary ROM actually came from, and met an astonishing lack of information. Granted, it's a model that isn't really supported. But it felt that the community is far away from having plausible sources and builds. I can understand that ultimately this begins with kernel sources that are already just a ZIP archive on some website.
- JohnFen 7y ago> Are they trustworthy? Most are, yes, and the community is pretty good at pointing out the ones that aren't. But the real question is are they any less trustworthy than Google itself and the phone manufacturers? From what I've observed, they are more trustworthy that that crowd.